ASSOCIATES NEWSLETTER

American Life League Associates Newsletter
February 12, 2007
Vol. 4, No. 7

From Associates

  • Pro-Life Wisconsin

    PLW's first annual spring awards dinner will be held Thursday April 19 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Madison. The keynote speaker will be South Dakota's Leslee Unruh, president of the Alpha Center and Abstinence Clearinghouse. Leslee spearheaded the effort to get last year's South Dakota abortion ban signed into law and has become a national spokeswoman for the no exceptions, no compromise approach to pro-life advocacy. In addition to her work with the VoteYesforLife.com campaign, Leslee has spoken across the country to thousands of teens on topics that are of most concern to them - self-respect, sexuality and building relationships. She has written newspaper columns, authored several informative brochures, has produced a TV program and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs.

    For more information and reservations, contact PLW's state office at 262-796-1111.

From ALL Headquarters

  • Petition to U.S. Catholic bishops

    American Life League is asking Catholics to sign a petition that will be delivered to the bishops of the United States at their next annual meeting in June. The petition respectfully requests the bishops to address the scandal created by pro-abortion Catholic politicians and to enforce Canon 915, which reads, in part, "those who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to communion."

  • STOPP

    ALL's most recent ad in its campaign against Planned Parenthood, "Blood Money," is now available on our web site in PDF format for your use. Feel free to download, copy and post or hand to others in order to make them aware of the true nature of Planned Parenthood.

    With the addition of this particular ad, there are now five ads aimed specifically against Planned Parenthood on the web site. To view all that are available, go to Downloads. You're welcome to use these as well. If you need any of them customized for your local use, send an e-mail to STOPP and we'll do what we can to help.

  • American Life League Rapid Response Team

    American Life League has recently developed a plan to try and better assist grassroots groups in need of quick help in their fight against Planned Parenthood. We have established a Rapid Response Team.

    What does the Rapid Response Team do? Well, suppose you find out about a legislative committee hearing to decide on funding increases to Planned Parenthood, leaving you precious little time to mobilize - the Rapid Response Team can spring into action.

    First of all, we have an online petition to stop the taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood. We can immediately go to that petition, identify all the people from your state who have signed and send them an urgent e-mail asking them to take the appropriate action.

    Then we will contact any other Associate groups and any of our Rock for Life chapters in your state to have members show up at hearings, hold demonstrations and do whatever needs to be done.

    Time permitting, we can contact your newspaper in the state capital and arrange to run an advertisement against Planned Parenthood in the newspaper on the day of the vote (or the day before).

    Finally, if there is a legislative or public hearing involved, we may be able to fly one of our staff out to testify at the hearing.

    What can you do? There are a number of things you can do now that will help us be ready to help you:

    • Encourage everyone in your state to sign the petition against taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood so we will have a large list of contacts when the need arises.

    • Encourage other pro-life groups in your area to become involved in the Associate Program.

    • Encourage the youth in your area to become involved with Rock for Life.

    • Stay informed about what is happening in your state regarding bills that will either give money to Planned Parenthood or take it away. Contact us as early as possible when a situation arises in which you think we can help.

  • National Pro-life T-shirt Day

    This year's National Pro-life T-shirt Day is Tuesday, April 24. This is a day when pro-lifers, especially those in public high schools and college campuses join together to be a voice for the babies by wearing a pro-life T-shirt on this particular day.

    Order the official National Pro-life T-shirt Day 2007 t-shirt online. Be sure to order before April 10.

  • New items at ProLifeGear.com

    In addition to the National Pro-life T-shirt Day t-shirt, we have a couple new items at ProLifeGear.com.

    Baby Steps DVD offers amazing 4-D ultrasound imagery featuring preborn babies from 8 weeks to 34 weeks as they roll, yawn, smile and well do things that little babies in utero are supposed to do.

    Saving Those Damned Catholics, by Judie Brown, offers wit, insight and a fearless presentation of the facts in examining Catholics who have betrayed their own Church's teachings on abortion and other life issues. Available in both hardback and soft cover.

News

  • Some birth control may raise clot risk

    Certain low-dose birth control pills increase a woman's risk of a potentially deadly blood clot more than others and should be pulled off the market, a consumer group said last week.

    All contraceptive pills carry a very low risk of blood clots that, even more rarely, can travel to the lungs and kill. It is a side effect of the pills' hormones, estrogen and progestin.

    But "third-generation" oral contraceptives that contain a type of progestin called desogestrel can double that risk, the advocacy group Public Citizen said in a petition filed with the Food and Drug Administration that seeks to stop the sale of just those newer pills.

    Public Citizen contends that after years of research showing no extra benefit for desogestrel-containing contraceptives, it is time for users to switch to older, safer birth control pills. It was posting a video explaining the petition on YouTube to get that message to younger pill users.

  • Euthanasia confusion

    Let no one say America is a death-denying society. Our newspapers are full of articles reporting on battles over how we die. The Terri Schiavo controversy was not a blip of newsworthy gruesomeness on the pages of otherwise cheerful publications. Schiavo's story replicated others, on and off the front pages, which have been going on for more than 30 years. Death, once again, is changing in America, and we have been arguing about how to handle these changes since they began decades ago.

  • Students around the world prepare for February 14 Fourth Annual Day of Purity

    Students in America and around the world are celebrating Valentine's Day by helping educate their peers on the value of sexual purity. Leading up to February 14, which is the Fourth Annual Day of Purity, young people are actively promoting the choice of purity by distributing flyers, wearing Day of Purity T-shirts and LivePure wristbands and organizing events in their schools, communities and churches.

    Students who embrace the purity lifestyle are countering the Hollywood culture with its risqué television shows, vulgar jokes, tasteless commercials and graphic movies. They are inundated at school, on television and on the internet with messages that lust and exploration are normal and healthy and that they should give up traditional moral values and explore their sexuality early and often. The Day of Purity is designed to raise awareness about the dangers of promiscuous behavior.

    Day of Purity participants obtain a planning manual, wristbands, T-shirts, informative flyers and other useful information from the official Day of Purity web site. Day of Purity also has a MySpace page at and a Facebook page to reach students who want more information.

Closing thought

"It's hard to have a future 'for our children and our children's children' without children, and in practice, Planned Parenthood specializes in the business of preventing them. Even more troubling is Planned Parenthood's long involvement in abortion 'rights' and the lethal services associated with them. Helping women kill their unborn children abuses the real well-being of women. It also violates the dignity of unborn children in a brutally intimate and permanent way."

—Archbishop Charles Chaput, "Ritter now faces the hard part of governorship: Governing," Denver Catholic Register, January 17, 2007

©2007 American Life League, Inc.